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Nothing
has a greater influence on the quality of children's sports than the
excellence of the coach. The
Highlander Aquatic Club staff consists of professionally trained coaches.
As member coaches in the American Swimming Coaches Association, they
have training and experience in the subjects of physiology and psychology
of adolescent development.
Our coaching staff
assures that the time your children spend in swimming will be quality
time. The team will strive to provide the environment which springs
from success. We believe
in empowering swimmers with skill and information so that personal judgments
and decisions can be intelligently made.
In a very short
period of time, since 1993, the ever-growing Highlander Aquatic Club
has produced many athletes ranked in the Top 10 in the United States.
The coaching staff uses the commitment, dedication, and understanding
necessary to swim from the perspectives of both a swimmer and a coach.
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Coach Curley, has nineteen years of coaching experience. Curley has
been the Head Coach at Cornell College, the Assistant Coach and
Recruiting Coordinator at Ohio State University and is currently the
Aquatics Director at the Lake Highland Preparatory School, Head Coach
of both the Varsity Men's and Women's Teams, and Head Coach of the
Highlander Aquatic Club. He has had the privilege of coaching 13 High
School State Champions, and 109 High School All-Americans, two
Olympians, seventeen NCAA Division I All-Americans and nine Big Ten
Champions. Coach Curley was a speaker at this past year's World
Coaches Clinic in Washington DC and had the privilege of heading up the 2007
Florida Swimming Zone Team. He has an Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science
and a Masters Degree in Physical Education from the University of
Iowa. He currently is a member of the Physical Education staff at
Lake Highland Preparatory School. Coach Curley is married to the
former Jan Denise Penningroth and they have three boys, Harrison
(14),
Mitchell (11) and Hayden (8). |
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Stacy
Wright
swright@lhps.org
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Stacy "Haberkamp" Wright, named Florida's 2001 Age Group Coach of the
Year, is a former Lake Highland Varsity swimmer and Highland graduate.
Stacy coached the Age Group swimmers at Florida Aquatics (FAST) in
Gainesville during her college years at the University of Florida.
Coach Stacy also was an assistant with Highlander Aquatics in 1994 and
1995 under Head Coach, Mike Curley in the beginning years of the team.
Coach Stacy was a Florida All-Star and Zone Coach for two years and is
now responsible for the Highlander Aquatics SwimAmerica lesson
program. In her ten years of coaching, she has trained over 20
National Ranked Age Group Swimmers and numerous Junior Olympic
Champions. She earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration
from the University of Florida and was married in August of 2002
to Kurtis Wright. Stacy and Kurtis now live in College Park with their
two boys, Carter (2) and Owen (8 months). Go Gators! |
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Ty Segrest
tsegrest@lhps.org |
Ty was a swimmer at
Louisiana State University qualifying for Nationals multiple times.
While finishing college he began coaching with the local club team,
assisting with the LSU team, and coaching the Masters Team. These
teams achieved much success with a Southeastern Conference
Championship, a 4th at NCAA’s on the college level,
multiple state championships and a top 5 USS Nationals finish with the
club team, and a masters team that grew to over 70 members with over
10 competitors in the Hawaiian Ironman Competition. After leaving
Louisiana, Coach Segrest worked 8 years in San Diego with the Blue
Fins Swim Team as the Head Age Group and Masters Coach. The time with
the Blue Fins included an “ASCA Age Group Coach of the Year” Award, 7
JO championships, having 5 National Top 16 swimmers, and 3 Junior
National Qualifiers. This time also included assisting with the
University of California San Diego for two years where they finished 2nd
at Division 3 NCAA’s both years and 2 years as Assistant Coach at
Mt.Carmel High School.
Ty came to Orlando with an underwater video business. Clients
included Auburn University and Swim Camp, Lakeside Swim Club in
Louisville, KY, and Dynamo Swim Team in Atlanta among many others. Now
back in coaching, Coach Ty is assisting with the High School and
Senior programs, and running the Masters group. His wife Gaby and he
have just had their first child, Eric, and live in Oviedo. |
Coach's
Responsibilities
The coach's job is to supervise the entire competitive swim program.
The Highlander Aquatic Club coaching staff is dedicated to providing
a program for youngsters that will enable them to learn the value of
striving to improve oneself. Therefore,
the coaches must be in total control in matters affecting training and
competition.
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The
coaches are responsible for placing youngsters in practice groups.
This is based on the age and ability level of each child. When it is in the best interest of a swimmer, he/ she will
be placed in a more challenging training group by the coach.
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Sole
responsibility for stroke instruction and the training regimen rests
with the Highlander coaching staff.
Each group's practices are based on sound scientific principles
and are geared towards specific goals of that group.
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The
coaching staff will make the final decision concerning which meets
Highlander swimmers
will attend. Accordingly,
the coaching staff makes the final decision concerning which events
a swimmer is entered.
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At
meets, the coaching staff will conduct and supervise warm-up procedures
for the team. After each race, coaches will offer constructive criticism
regarding the swimmer's performance. (It is the parent's job to
offer love and understanding regardless of their youngster's performance.)
- The building
of a relay team is the sole responsibility of the coaching staff.
The coaching staff is constantly updating and improving the
team
Experience
is not what happens to you,
it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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